Moonspiracy

Actually there is gravity on the moon. That's why the sand stays on the ground and you can make footprints. The gravity just isn't as strong as the earth.

knew someone would point that out.

Very very tall poles.

Problem solved!

I don't mean to troll, it's just an interesting idea

Seriously, yes they would. Helium rises (on earth) because it is lighter than air. Since there's no air on the moon, there's nothing for helium to be lighter than. Therefore, the balloon will sink. But that doesn't help when you're trying to make for funny memes. LOL

Just before returning home...

Yeh I know...but sometimes it's hard to resist.:)))

But my farts are not.

Care to confirm?

AND THE WINNER IS: Picard

I82QB4IP4 & Picard,,,

I don't know what's wrong with it,

But I can tell you Earth sure looks better in color,,,

Just don't look at Uranus to find a moon

The big yellow one is the sun

Lol

Lol

Typo

Awesome meme :)

Lol

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:)

Two moons
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

(cool one, HB WH.)

Lol good one

The shadows are wrong... 3 different directions when they should all be the same angle from 1 light source...the sun !

Then the lack of shadow from the flag!

Actually if you look carefully you can see the flagpole shadow from the base of the flagpole its running to the right , completely opposite the other shadows which are at 2 different angles. If there was a reflection off the Earth in the back ground then the shadows would also be running towards the camera...which they arent.!!!
Now for the REAL kicker... You see the angle of the shadow off the Lunar Lander , so if that is the location angle of the Sun , then you would NOT see the Earth as a round fully lit ball , the Left hand side would have the edge of darkness in a crescent shape. The Sun would have to be behind the Camera to fully illuminate the Earth like that and the shadows on the moon would be different....Food for thought !

After I reread your initial post about the three different directions I noticed what might be the flagpole shadow. It's so thick (that's what she said?) that I don't know if it's supposed to be coming from the right of the picture or if it's supposed to be the flagpole.

I'd already seen people point out just the moon period, so I didn't give it any additional thought, but absolutely the Earth would have a "dark side" given the most likely angle of the sun.

you forget about artificial lights

the earth provides a second, reflective, light source on the moon...in the same way the moon provides a reflective light source down here on earth :-)

See my reply above ^...

Actually,due to the size of the sun, and the gravity of the other bodies around it, the shadows would not have to be directly parallel. Gravity bends light waves, and the sun is big enough to send it from different locations, if in the right position, however it is still questionable due to the fact that the sun is so far away, but the fact of gravity bending light waves still applies

In general relativity, light follows the curvature of spacetime, hence when light passes around a massive object, it is bent. This means that the light from an object on the other side will be bent towards an observer's eye, just like an ordinary lens. Since light always moves at a constant speed, lensing changes the direction of the velocity of the light, but not the magnitude. This phenomena is primarily visible using Telescopes for viewing distant galaxies and stars, planets , etc. not close up ...

If you are using the term "close" relative to the distances of bodies in space, then distance from said object plays little to no role in the act of bending light. The main factor is gravitational pull. Say you were a mere few meters away from a black hole(disregarding the fact that you would be able to see no light) if you could still see, the light would be greatly warped due to the immense gravitational pull. Now if you were on earth and the gravitational pull was from an object such as the sun or Jupiter(even though jupiter's effect on the light is very slight, so we will pay attention to that of the sun) then the effect is noticeable. If mercury, for example, was slightly behind the sun to where we would not be able to view it, we would still see a distorted image of the planet. So, to sum all this up, yes, it would work close up.

But to be more exact, a better explaination of the non-parallel shadows would be tokinjester's comment on how earth would act as a reflective light source, just as the moon does the same here on earth

This was all very wonderful to read, I thank yous,,,

No problem! I guess you learn something new every day

???? nerd

Damn you....you beat me to it!!!

JK

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